Philo Agora's talk this Tuesday, September 8, is Mary Walker. "Parfit
on Persons: Does it matter what we are?"
Derek Parfit argues against considering ourselves to be entities that
exist separately from the brain, body, and series of mental and
physical events. He takes this to imply that we should be less
concerned about our future selves than we usually are, and should
alter many of our practices and values. But does this necessarily
follow? Mary's talk consider other possible responses to the idea
that our 'selves' are something less than we thought they were.
Mary Walker is a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, working on
personal and narrative identity.
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Tuesday September 7 at the Fair Trade Coffee House, 33 Glebe
Point Road, Glebe, $6.00 includes a free cup of coffee or tea. Start
at 7.30. Finish at 9.00pm. If you want to eat, come early. All
profits from the Fair Trade Cafe go to support Third World development.
Philo Agora talks for the remainder of the year , and its approach to
its sessions, can be viewed at its website ,
<http://www.philoagora.com>www.philoagora.com . Philo
Agora has a talk every two weeks
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THE PHILOAGORA ANNUAL ESSAY AWARD
PhiloAgora has instituted an award of $100 for the essay and talk
that best meets our our objectives of relating philosophical thought
to how we act out our lives, individually or collectively .
Papers of 2500 words or so will be placed on the website and judged
at the end of the first year, Details on our website ,Open
to undergrads, postgrads, everybody, except full time academics..
We have also joined with the Fair Trade Cafe in not
charging students the usual $6.00 admission
Philo Agora
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